Stone’s dress popped slightly while walking onstage after she won the award. She quipped that her dress broke after watching Ryan Gosling’s “I’m Just Ken” performance.
“It’s about a team that came together to make something greater than the sum of its parts,” Stone said about her victory. “I am so deeply honored to share this with every cast member, every crew member, with every single person who poured their love and their care and their brilliance into the making of this film.”
With the win, Stone notched her second Oscar after winning best actress for her role as Mia in “La La Land” in 2017.
The best actress race was considered one of the tighter competitions earlier this awards season, with Lily Gladstone and Stone each winning top prizes. But as the Oscars approached, Gladstone appeared to have emerged as the favorite to win best actress. She had a trailblazing awards season following her breakout performance in Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon,” in which she played Mollie Burkhart, a 1920s Osage woman whose family was brutally targeted for their oil head rights. She racked up a Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild award. She received a standing ovation when she won the SAG award last month.
Stone, after winning the Oscar, celebrated Gladstone, too. “Lily, I share this with you. I’m in awe of you.”